Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Swedish fish

List of Swedish fish

Self-nom. An extensive list of fish in Swedish waters, both native and introduced, in both fresh, brackish and marine waters.

The most important fish are given a little text in the lead of each section. All information is referenced to a Swedish fish database. There are also images of the fish that are mentioned. Naturally more could be written about each species but I'm not sure making the list even longer would be benefitial.

Although all textual information is well referenced, I admit that it is a problem that the list reference is not online anymore. I did not expect that from the Swedish Museum of Natural History! It is however available on archive.org: [1] . I have written to the museum and asked what happened to the page.

Fred-Chess 12:42, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Good stuff, but: there are way too many red links, the pictures distort the layout big time, the table columns are not of consistent width, references are not quite cited in an acceptable format (see {{cite web}} for the format), and the introduction could benefit from some more information (I especially don't like a direct reference to the table itself). Renata 13:11, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- I have now corrected the tables to make the rows equally wide. It did require the table width to increase to 700px , hope it fits all screens. / Fred-Chess 14:22, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - What makes the fish in Marine waters Swedish? Are they found in what Sweden defines as its territorial sea (12 nautical miles from the coast)? CheekyMonkey 17:13, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes, I would assume so. It isn't mentioned in the material I used. There is also often made reference to two different areas: the marine east of Sweden and the marine west of Sweden. The water east of Sweden is the Baltic Sea, and in its northern parts it is (a) cold and (b) quite brackish. The water west of Sweden, on the other hand, is part of the Atlantic, where Sweden has territorial sea in both the Skagerrack and the Kattegat. (see map Image:Map of Sweden, CIA, 1996.jpg). / Fred-Chess 19:02, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Object It is a great list, well-referenced but with a large number of red links it fails the usefulness criteria. Other things to consider:

Some pictures are framed while others are thumbed and captioned. I think it is preferable to thumb and caption all.
What taxonomic order or authority are you using? This should be mentioned in the lead.
Why does the lead use an approximate number of species? If this list is complete then an exact number of species can be given.

I will support once these issues have been addressed. The red links are the most time-consuming request. Good luck and ,once again, good job. Joelito (talk) 15:39, 15 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]